Word: reflects
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...likely now that the path has been cleared some action will be taken by the Council. If it were possible to hope that they would reflect not only on the safety of a new plan, but also on the future prestige of Harvard athletics, it would not be long before tennis was a fully recognized University sport. PAUL JACKSON, Asst. Tennis Afgr...
...will meddle in other people's business once too often; and the heckled, down-trodden proletariat will, with starting abruptness, proceed to clean house. The disembodied a spirit of the W. C. T. U. floating around in interstellar space, where there is no tobacco smoke, will have time to reflect on the fact that the American people are like a buzz-saw. One cannot "monkey" with them much...
...editorials, the CRIMSON has seriously tried to reflect the general opinion of University students, and where it has found that opinion at fault, or another viewpoint more valuable, the paper has ventured to guide thought into other channels. The difficulty in reflecting opinion in such a University as Harvard is obvious: there are a multitude of different ideas which cannot possibly be interpreted through one organ, some radically extreme and some doggedly conservative. And then there is the constant difficulty of knowing when public opinion "is really opinion and when it is merely public...
...speaking of the demobilization, Major Heermance dwelt upon the great importance of an honorable discharge from the army. He said, "For the reputation of the unit as well as of the individual men, all men are cautioned to avoid disorder or unbecoming conduct which would at all reflect on the unit or on themselves...
...judge Charles William Eliot aright, you must put out of mind his titles, his honors, and his successes. These have been but happy accidents. They reflect credit on the community to which he belonged, and the times in which he lived; but they throw little light on his character. That he was elected President of Harvard College was surprising; that he made a success of his new work was more surprising. For he had not what was usually recognized as an academic mind. Like Wordsworth, he had "to create the taste by which he was appreciated...